At noon the next day, Chen Xin met with the Great Elder in the capital as scheduled.

They were already familiar with each other, and they didn't exchange pleasantries too much.

After a brief lunch at ZNH, Chen Xin and the Great Elder exchanged views on the release time of the Golden Dragon battery.

"Xiao Chen, how about putting the release date of Jinlong battery on October 1, which coincides with the National Day, and it can be regarded as double happiness! Today is September 18, and it is too late in time. The Great Elder said with a smile.

Chen Xin smiled: "I don't have any opinion on this, but does the Russian side agree?"

The last time the tripartite talks were held in the Chinese capital, Chen Xin, Putin and the elders had reached an agreement on the release of King Long Battery within the year, as long as the first production line of the Chinese side was installed, the news of the success of King Long Battery could be announced to the outside world.

But on such a day of special significance for China, I don't know what the Russian side thinks.

Chen Xin also understood what the Great Elder meant, and put the release date of the Golden Dragon battery on October 1, in addition to testing the mind of the war, he may not have expressed to the Russians that in the ranking of tripartite cooperation, China is before Russia.

The Grand Elder smiled and said, "I just had a phone call with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev last night, and they agreed to this point in time, when Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuryevich and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will attend this press conference!"

Chen Xindao: "Then there will be no problem, then come according to your arrangement!"

The Great Elder thought for a moment and asked again, "Xiao Chen." You're really not going to make an official appearance at this press conference?"

According to the previous agreement of the three parties, at this press conference, China and Russia will jointly announce that the Golden Dragon battery project jointly developed by the two sides has made an important breakthrough, but the name of the war and even the name of Transwarp Group will not appear in this press conference at all.

This made the Great Elder very puzzled, with the current position of strength in the war, there was no need to continue to be so low-key, right?

Chen Xin smiled and said, "Chief, the time has not yet come!"

He thought for a moment and suddenly asked, "Great Elder." What do you think about the future of China's space industry?"

The Great Elder smiled and said, "Are you teaching me?"

Chen Xin smiled slightly.

The Great Elder said, "Speaking of aerospace. In fact, we should thank you the most, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Aerospace Science and Industry Group, and I have read the acceptance report sent back by the expert group sent to Mogadishu.

With the capabilities of the Aurora. China can completely build the module of a large spacecraft on the ground after it is completed. It is then sent to space for assembly. It's like the International Space Station. But there is no doubt that China's spacecraft will be much larger than the size of the International Space Station, which the United States excluded from its plans back then. In retrospect, this is undoubtedly a huge joke.

More importantly, the flight cost of the Dawning is extremely low, only one-fiftieth of the current Long March rocket, and according to China's annual space launch missions of about 20 times, the annual space launch investment is enough to allow the space plane to fly thousands of times and send nearly 100,000 tons of payload to outer space.

Prior to this, China launched only about 100 tons of rocket payloads per year.

That's a huge step forward.

No wonder the Great Elder made such an exclamation.

The Grand Elder paused and continued: "When the two aerospace planes Aurora and the Dragon are commissioned, we will immediately launch the large-scale space station project and the manned lunar landing project, and the manned landing on Mars will also be included in the space development plan for the next ten years. In addition, a series of deep space exploration projects in the solar system will also be accelerated, Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, each planet is in our range. In addition, the Council of Elders has also reached an agreement that in the next 10 years, our space spending will increase at a rate of about 30 percent every year, and four large-scale deep-space monitoring and control stations will be built this year and next year to serve China's future deep-space exploration projects! In 10 years, our first lunar base that can accommodate about 50 people will be put into operation, and the Mars research station will also enter the stage of large-scale construction. Xiao Chen, what do you think of such a plan?"

The Great Elder looked at Chen Xin with interest, hoping to see a hint of surprise from the other party.

When the Great Elder first saw such a magnificent aerospace development plan, he was also shocked by this plan.

In the past, such a plan would have been a joke, but now with the Dawning-class aerospace aircraft, this will become possible.

China can even use the incredible capacity of the Guò space plane to carry out a series of space cooperation with developed countries such as Germany and France, or exchange related technology with them, and the Great Elder believes that even if the United States obstructs it, it may not be of much use.

Chen Xin seemed to understand the Great Elder's mood to show off, smiled, and said, "Chief, this is not enough!"

"Not enough?!"

The Great Elder was slightly stunned and asked, "Xiao Chen, what do you mean?"

Chen Xindao: "All of China's space programs are still in the stage of scientific investigation, but there seems to be no mention of how to promote economic development through space industrialization, nor how to develop space resources to serve mankind!"

"Xiao Chen, you ......" The Great Elder was taken aback, and then smiled dumbly: "You, you, you can't become a fat man in one bite, and you are still thinking about your space elevator plan?"

Chen Xin nodded and said, "Great Elder, you should know that even if we have aerospace aircraft, the resources that can be launched into outer space every year are already the limit, otherwise it will have an important impact on the economy. And the industrialization of space, the space launch load required starts at least 100 million tons, and the aerospace aircraft simply cannot afford such a task!"

The Great Elder retracted his smile and said, "Xiao Chen, I understand your ambitions, and I believe that you have such technology, but you should understand that with China's current national strength, oh no, even if all the countries in the world are combined, I am afraid that you will not be able to achieve the kind of Cheng that you hope to achieve in a few decades." Solar cells may not be able to support such a huge power consumption, and even if it can be solved with nuclear power, what about the water? An iron-making plant needs at least hundreds of workers, and their domestic and industrial water needs to be provided by the earth.

Chen Xin smiled and said, "Chief, there is water on Mars!"

"What?" the Great Elder was taken aback.

Chen Xin repeated again: "Mars has water !!"

This time, the Great Elder really heard clearly, his eyes widened, and he said in disbelief: "Xiao Chen, what you said is true?"

Chen Xin smiled and said, "Chief, did you tell a lie about the war?"

The Great Elder was not calm at this moment, got up from the sofa, and walked back and forth a few steps!

The reason why he was not optimistic about the space elevator plan was that in addition to the excessive investment and the distant return, the temporary inability of human beings to colonize alien planets was also an important factor!

After all, with the current technological and economic strength of mankind, the cost of building a space city on a large scale is too high, and colonizing extraplanets is the most feasible option.

But the problem now is that neither the moon nor Mars has enough water resources to guarantee, and if you take water from the earth, the cost is too high to afford, but these planets have water themselves, and Mars, in particular, is the most suitable for transforming it into a second home for human beings, both in orbit and temperature.

If water is really found on Mars, then whichever strikes first to seize Mars will most likely become the future hegemon in the solar system.

At the thought of this, the Great Elder felt a little irrepressible with excitement.

In China's history, the expansion of territory has always been a sign of whether the ruler can leave a name in history, if he can open up and occupy a planet......, what kind of great cause should it be?